Firelily's rider

[Ya Sam]

Not really. In the guide to V. it's written that some scholars believe that Firelily's Rider might be Foppl and others can't pin him down. The main problem is who is the narrator? Definitely not Mondaugen. >> > Pynchonwiki V. section said that> Firelily was a horse given to Mondaugen> > does that help?> > On 1/3/06, Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:> > Been re-reading V. recently. It is still difficult to believe that it was> > written by a guy in his twenties. What a book! The most puzzling, at least> > for me, remains Mondaugen's story. Reality and surreal visions are> > interwoven to such an extent that even upon a second reading it's difficult> > to make sense of this narrative. I rifled through the V. group read and> > could not find any discussion about the identity of the narrator of the> > 'hallucinatory' 1904 flashback referred to as Firelily's rider. Is he and> > Foppl one and the same person? Or maybe some metaphyical stuff is at work?> >> > _________________________________________________________________> > Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE!> > http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/> >> >> > > -- > "...there are not only landmarks, but also anti-landmarks - for every> beacon, an episode of intentional blindness." (Professor Svegli, p248)
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